Comments on: Gizmondo Scandals – Do They Know What They’re Doing? – Part 2

By: The Wireless Blog

The Wireless Blog — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:52:18 +0000

2005Ìs worst mobiles

While searching for what was hot and what was not in mobile phones, I came across this article in MobHappy by Carlo that was spookily close to my own thoughts! He posted a list of the worst in mobile of 2005. I have to admit that I canÌt agree more wi…

By: Carlo Longino

Carlo Longino — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 05:05:26 +0000

Pretty poor, tack Eklund

By: Eklund

Eklund — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:18:01 +0000

You also can find a rather extensive background history of these characters and the whole setup in this week’s issue of the business magazine Veckans Affarer.
How’s your swedish?

By: Claes Zetterqvist

Claes Zetterqvist — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:26:23 +0000

In the early 90′s Bo Stefan “Fat”Eriksson (Director of Gizmondo Europe got a 10 year jail sentence in Sweden for fraud and served his time. He was involved in what the Swedish news media called the “Uppsala Mafia” He had two more companions from that Mafia era who, guess what are involved in the Gizmondo company group. Namely Head of Security in the group Johan Enander who served 6 years in jail for being the Uppsala Mafias torpedo and as late as 2003 he was senteced to 1 year in prison for beating up a women. The second old friend and companionwho is now a director of Gizmondo is Peter Ulf who got senteced to 8,5 years in prison for fraud connected to the Uppsala Mafias operations. The source for this information is the biggist newspaper in Stockholm, Sweden – Aftonbladet. Se link to the article. Unfortunately the article is in Swedish. http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/0,2789,718446,00.html

By: Ken Philips

Ken Philips — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:45:35 +0000

Also surprised that no-one has picked up on the fact that Stephan Ericsson entered a Gizmondo sponsored ferrari race-car in the Le Mans 24 Hour race- wonder if that showed up as an employee benefit?

By: Gideon Marken

Gideon Marken — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:03:38 +0000

Related info at Gamasutra:

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=6658

By: Helen Keegan

Helen Keegan — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:27:12 +0000

Very cosy indeed. And almost unbelievable, except I know it’s true. Doesn’t bode well for the future. And it’s not a great product either. But if they’re operating like this, I wonder who else is?!

By: Gideon Marken

Gideon Marken — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:36:14 +0000

Excellent digging Russell – that was an excellent post.

These people are out of control.

It’s amazing these things are happening. It’s mind boggling that these people are basically bathing in money, tossing it around.

The well will run dry, the stuff will hit the fan – these people have no clue about running a modern media business.

I don’t recall who’s quote it was, or if I’ll get it exactly right, but here we go…

“The CEO and other executives should not make more than 3 times the sallary of the lowest paid person in the organization.”

A corporation that takes a position like this acknowledges the whole organization – it sends a message of importance – of equality.

Gizmondo are sending the message that the execs are fat kings, and that everyone else is a common peasant. Sorry, that doesn’t work like it used to.

So, now we get to watch their demise?

“Tune in next week for another episode of High Tech Drama! Same blog channel! Same blog time!

Keep up the great work Russell